The other study by Walter Goldschmidt (1978) focused on farming
communities in California. Goldschmidt used a comparative community framework similar to that employed by Mills and Ulmer but limited his study to only two communities. He found that residents in the
community dominated by large-scale, corporately controlled farming
had a lower standard of living and quality of life than residents in the
community where production was dispersed among a large number of
smaller farms